Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life, odd and otherwise, in small towns of the rural South. Given this common starting point, comparisons of the three were probably inevitable, but they also were, and remain, misleading. Each looked at the South in a different way. Faulkner saw the tailings and butt ends of a long tragic myth; O'Connor perceived a gallery of grotesques testing the limits of God's mercy to man. Welty concentrated instead on ordinary people, on "the thing that makes them what they are in themselves, their secret life, their memory of the past, their childhood, their dreams." Her choice...
...like Hitler's 1000-year Reich, it ran out of steam long before anybody expected. Where American ideals and ideas once inspired millions worldwide with hope for the future, the nation now perceives itself as spiritually bankrupt and narcissistic. As the obsession with the gilded past and tragic future continues, it becomes imperative for historians to bulldoze the mythology surrounding the rise and decline of American culture and clear a space for honest interpretation of the bygone era. Ronald Steel depicts American political history through the life and work of Walter Lippmann '10, and achieves a syncretic vision...
...misappraisal of American military objectives. But the duplicity of the Johnson administration's selling the war to a gullible nation. His 40-year-old prediction that the tendency to fabricate facts and rely on mistaken public opinion would have dire consequences came true, taking on tragic proportions in Vietnam. This time, however, the professionals and experts he trusted were the ones to casually deceive the public and betray his confidence. Ostracized for his strident criticism of the war, Lippmann actively encouraged radical protest...
...predicament of Jews in the Soviet Union has reached "tragic proportions," David Powell, Russian Research Fellow, told a Riesman Center audience yesterday...
...consideration of improved safety measures occurred last spring when the Business School hired an additional 24-hour security guard to patrol its campus, following the rape of two Business school students. At the river, each House already has its own watchman. The University should not wait for yet another tragic incident before it decides to form yet another committee to debate whether the Quad needs more than one guard...